KEEP AN EYE ON MY CHANGELOGS 

The included BAT file is what makes this work as advertised. Technically you don’t need it but that is frowned upon. All Starfield Custom INI changes are not required and purely optional but recommended.

Grind UI (optional)
Edited the Vanilla UI to remove Hit markers, hit detection markers, Red on crosshairs when rollover enemy, enemies on the compass (minimap) Enemy Name and Health Bars, and the XP gain bar that pops up in the middle of the screen every time you get a kill. Removes red tint around watch when enemies are around. 2.0 update: Added Local and universal time to the watch. Added your encumbrance meter to the watch. (Amount you are currently carrying/Amount you can carry overall) Works with all StarUI Components EXCEPT StarUIHud.

**NO SCANNER LINES OPTIONAL FILE SEE PICTURE. Removes ugly circle when in your scanner.

**Updated Starfield custom and prefs. Highly recommended found a lot of amazing settings and coordinated with several other mod authors. 

What This Do 

Changes the difficulty very hard to a more survival difficulty. With that being said You HAVE to change the difficulty to Very Hard to get the full effect of this mod.
Continuation of my previous mods and is still considered a WIP. (Enter/Into the Grindfield)


Level Scaling
All creatures, robots, turrets, and human encounter npcs will scale to the player level. Does NOT scale any NAMED character human NPC. NO companions quest givers etc. Scales at a 1 to 1 player level ratio. 

Size Scaling
All creatures, robots, turrets, and human encounter npcs will now vary in size. Creatures have the largest variation in sizes from .5 to 3x depending on the creature. Robots and Turrets from .5 to 1.5. And human encounter npc from .91 to 1.09. Does NOT scale any NAMED character human NPC. NO companions quest givers etc. 

*Increased speed and a view other values of specific NPCs and some edits to terrormorph leveled list to allow all types to spawn bug free. Shout out to JaeDL and the Royalty mods. Changes based off of https://www.nexusmods.com/starfield/mods/8007.

Locational Damage
In vanilla there was no locational damage except for headshots on humans at 2x damage. What this does is diversifies the health of limbs and damage dealt to limbs by creature type and individual limb type. It will make each different type of combatant feel different and a little more realistic. Headshots matter against pretty much all enemies.  See below for changes.

• Increased protection of limbs from Armor  0.365 -> 0.5
• Increased Damage Factor to Limbs from  .15 -> .25
  

Changes only apply if the creature has the limbs mentioned. (Some Robots have brains some dont. etc)

Basically don’t shoot center mast. 

Humans including Crowd
Heads: Increased health and damage dealt to 3x. 
Arms: Increased health by and damage dealt to 1.1x
Torso: Increased health and Decreased damage dealt to .75x
Legs: Increased Health and Increased damage to 1.25x
Feet: increased health and damage dealt to 1.5x
Boostpack: Increased Health 

Robots
Heads: Increased damage dealt to 2x.
Arms: Increased health by and damage dealt to 1.1x
Torso: Increased health and Decreased damage dealt to .75x
Legs: Increased Health and Increased damage to 1.25x
Feet: increased health and damage dealt to 1.5x
Pelvis: Damage dealt increased to 1.5x
Brain: Damage dealt increased to 3x
Creatures
Heads: Increased damage dealt to 2x.
Arms: Increased health by and damage dealt to 1.1x
Torso: Increased health and Decreased damage dealt to .75x
Legs: Increased Health and Increased damage to 1.25x
Feet: increased health and damage dealt to 1.5x
Critters
Heads: Increased damage dealt to 1.5x.
Arms: Increased health by and damage dealt to 1.1x
Torso: Increased health and Decreased damage dealt to .5x
Legs: Increased Health and Increased damage to 1.25x
Feet: increased health and damage dealt to 1.5x
Turrets
Head: Increased health and Increased damage dealt to 1.5x
Legs: Increased Health and Increased damage dealt to 1.1x
Torso: increased health and Decreased damage dealt to .75x
Swimmers
Head: Increased health and Increased damage dealt to 1.5x
Fins: Increased Health and Increased damage dealt to 1.25x
Torso: increased health and Decreased damage dealt to .75x


Combat

• Really changed how the combat AI thinks. It’s 1 priority is to get in cover and survive. 2 priority is to suppress you as their teammates move up. 3 priority to flank you and flush you out. All while staying in cover or moving up only with cover. The ai will do a better job fleeing when losing, and chase when they are winning. More ai will follow you through doors, they will work with each other a bit better.
• Increased amount of damage taken and given 
• Reduced amount of health you and Ai get in leveling.
• Increased level scale multipliers to help with having better enemies.
• Blocking blocks more damage. 
• Better AI melee reactions 
• Faster block cooldown 
• A Lot less combat dialogue 
• No combat music
• Can shoot mines to disarm
• Turrets now reload, no longer being a consistent laser beam.
• Slightly reduced min time on mines help make them seem dangerous 
• Adjusted and reduced recoil
• Adjusted reaction times and awareness.
• A lot more hard to remember it all but lots of math.
  

Companions

• Better follow distance and will do a better job staying around you.
• Changed affinity a little bit. Made negative actions weigh as much as positive so now. No more 1 good deed erases three bad ones. 
• Will lower weapon sooner after combat.
  

Economy and Looting System

• Rent is 500 a day 2500 a week 
• enhance now 2500
• Sell price has been reduced a lot. 
• Added a lot of extra credits to all vendors including ship vendors.
• Vendors respawn in 5 days.
• Ship registration fee set to half.
• increased starter home mortgage amount and interest payment.
• increased kid stuff weekly percentage and max amount given.
• Less Ammo loot 
• Less Credit loot 
• Credit Loot is no longer leveled but more random.
• Replaced in most, but not all instances All Resource Loot with misc junk. 
• Chance that your loot is Valuable Junk. 
• Valuable Junk marked with a v in front can be used to make common resources at industrial workbench. Not valuable Selling wise. Includes vacuum tape for adhesive. 
• Slightly less digipicks or med pack loot
• increased value of contraband and crates of misc items(from missionboard quests)
• Increased rents and costs of housing.
• Increased cost for committing crimes.
• Quest Credit rewards are no longer leveled. Now fall into basic categories by size for payout.
• 5 payout amounts for ALL quests and missionboards rewards changed to match.
• Increased payout from missionboard and radiant and misc quests to match the sizing and pay of regular quests.
• Faction and companion are same as main.
• No change to looting in space (asteroid and wreckage) 
  

General 

• no auto aim
• if use a controller better controller handling
• better jump grab reaction time and strength
• increased number of characters allowed in custom names to 30
• increased star map zoom
• Dead bodies and gun shells last longer
• changed messages to 1st person 
• Changed ship looting, docking, and transfer distance to 50 meters
• increased materials needed for research by a lot. No sudden developments. (Free resources)
• increased chance amount and max amount of missions at missionboard
• increased chance of space encounters
• increased chance of boarding encounters
• increased chance of derelict encounters 
• increased amount of npcs in boarding and derelict encounters
  

NPC

• Allowed up to 100 npc brains active and allowed in combat.
• Eye tracking fix. Better blinking. 
• Smaller convo radius 
• Increased durations for lunch, dinner.
• Increased duration of time it takes npc to eat sitting and standing. 
• Will remember intimidation and crimes up to 5 days.
• When escorting will escort at closer distance. 
  

Outposts

• Craftable Ammo
• Turn some junk into resources
• vacuum tape to adhesive
• Decreased clipping threshold 
• Doubled build limit
• increased resource need 
• halved distance allowed between harvesters
• Better camera distance
• power generators produce more power
• Doubled Distance of Scanner Booster
  

Perks

• increased ship command crew capacity amount to max 50.
  

Scanner

• No fill in scanner
• No map markers until at location
• Thinnest outlines possible
• Halved the length of the waypoint arrows showing you where to go.
  

Ship

• Turned on a bunch of maneuvers for the ai that were turned off. Still unsure if this actually does anything.
• increased boosting speed by a little bit 
• small ship combat tweaks for AI mins maxs and stuff. 
  

Shipbuilder

• USE with caution. Increased max amount of pieces and size of ship allowed to be created. 
• increased amount of owned ships to 50
  

Stealth

• Smaller npc view cone
• Better sound and light and sleep multipliers
• Hidden stealth meter
• Changed view and search distances 
• Will notice dead from farther and react better
• Better reactions to sounds
  

Survival stuff

• The orange or yellow env damage bar can now kill you
• Your infections can spread and get worse
• Changed the 1 addiction from stimulants to substance addiction. Added a movement penalty to addiction. (Half of the aurora movement penalty)
• Alcohol has a small chance to give you a substance addiction.
• Increased chance to get an addiction from aurora to 50%.
• Added chance for substance addiction to AMP. 33% chance 
• AMP increased all effects by 25%. Shorter duration now 90 seconds. 
• Sorry but it is just too much fun now and caution you can kill yourself from jumping too high.
• Auroras visual and movement duration changed by a lot, slowed time by half as much.
• Changed how food NOT drinks work.
• no duration healing, no buffs or debuffs 
• Instant healing only 
• increased amount of hp gained by all food sources 
• Increased multiplier oxygen to co2
• increased strength of most afflictions. 
  

 
Changes to Vanilla Backgrounds

• Xenobiologist      Slight Description Change. New Perks: Surveying, Zoology
• Space Scoundrel Changed name to Smuggler
• Sculptor        Description Change. New Perks: Medicine, Geology, Commerce            
• Professor      New Perks: Astrodynamics, Research Methods, Persuasion
• Pilgrim  Slight Description Change
• Long Hauler  Changed name to Space Trucker
• Beast Hunter                Changed name to Big Game Hunter
• Homesteader                Changed name to Settler. New Perks: Boost Pack Training, Weightlifting, Surveying
• Gangster                        Description Change. New Perks: Dueling, Boxing, Theft
• Explorer                         New Perks: Planetary Habitation, Surveying
• Industrialist                   New Perks: Scavenging, Geology, Research Methods
• Diplomat                        Description Change. New Perks: Persuasion, Commerce, Negotiation
• Cyberneticist                Changed name to Robotics Engineer
• Cyber Runner                Changed name to Goon
• Combat Medic               Slight Description Change.
• Bounty Hunter               Slight Description Change.
• Bouncer                         Slight Description Change. New Perks: Boxing, Fitness, Persuasion
  

New Backgrounds

• Spacer        No Starting Perks. Blank Slate.
• Low Life      Theft, Security, Boxing
• Space Junkie     Boostpack Training, Surveying, Gastronomy. * Additional 25% chance for All Addictions.
• Inner Amos                 Neurostrikes, Boxing
• Belter                          Boostpack Training, Piloting, Surveying
• Ace Pilot                     Piloting, Targeting Control Systems, Engine Systems
• Xenobotanist              Surveying, Botany
• Star Child                     Piloting, Astrodynamics, Persuasion
• Unknown                      Robotics, Manipulation
• Miner                            Geology, Surveying, Demolitions
• Serial Killer                  Dueling, Shotgun Certification, Stealth
• Con Artist                     Persuasion, Intimidation, Negotiation
• Athlete                          Gymnastics, Weightlifting, Fitness
• Corporate Employee    Commerce, Persuasion, Gastronomy
  

New Traits

• Dreamer                       25% XP Gain    25% Reduced Sell Prices
• Bigger Dreamer           50% XP Gain    50% Reduced Sell Prices
• New Grindfield Trait and Grindfield plus Dreamers Trait. x3 Amount of mines allowed to be placed and x3 Player Commanded Actor Limit *Experimental not sure if it works but doesn't break anything through testing.
  

XP

• Decreased by 50-25% from most sources.
• Will get full value from radiant and missionboard missions to help make missions more lucrative.
• Survey missionboard gives good xp now.
  

Quests

• increased chance for a different ng+ universe to 50%
  

Install Instructions 
As of now this requires plugins.txt enabler. You could also use any ASI loader for the plugins.txt injection I just recommend sfse. You should not use the testfile way but do at your own risk. these will be removed once mods are officially supported and in time will have no requirements.

Follow plugins.txt install instructions and then add *exactfilenameincludingspacesandcapitalletters.esm to your plugin.txt
Added optional but recommended changes for your starfield custom and prefs. Found in the folder optional ini now in your data folder where the plugin is installed.

 Make sure the loose txt files are in your root folder where the starfield.exe is. Add the following line to your starfield custom.
[General]
sStartingConsoleCommand=bat GrindTerraloader

If you already have bat files you can just add these lines onto the ones your running or add to your list.
This still has a bat file and inserts commands through the console as I am unable to make all changes I intended through other mod tool means. Please do not change how I set this up as it runs through a couple times to make sure all changes do happen.

If you notice in the console some bats fail to load, I use the same loader for this mod and my proc gen mod so if you use both you don’t have to change your bat injection. Works as intended, if you don’t have the other mod installed there are no issues just states it can’t find the other mods bats.


Ini changes found in your data folder new folder called new custom inis 
inverted pitch for space flight (this is my personal pref but just switch to 1 if you don't want it)
Essentials take no damage
stealth meter hidden
Auto save on quit off   EVEN THOUGH THERE IS A PROMPT IT WON'T SAVE ON EXIT feature not bug.
auto save on wait off
auto save on travel off
removed crosshairs
auto save general is set to sixty 
auto save while sleep is on
turns off floating quest marker
Other performance changes

Compatibility
 There can’t be any real compatibility issues as this just overrides vanilla and adds unique content. Other mods that make the same changes whichever mod is lower in your list is the value that would be used. Mods that add the same content you will just have both and clutter whatever you added for example craftable ammo you would have two different but probably same names.

If you want to use any other leveled list mods (like for example any Royalty Mods) whichever you load last is which of the conflicting lines are used. (Like the level scaling ratio.) but they are still fully compatible.

The only compatibility issues are with the optional but recommended UI*
*Compatible with all starui components except starhud. I use all his other modules except the configure one. Only bug found is when removing space suit it will make body disappear temporarily. Just change to a different menu and back and it will fix itself.. unsure if this is starui or mine but I didn’t touch any menu interfaces so it should be a vanilla starui bug.
Any mod changing the files provided are incompatible with the UI. 

Warning: Once installed and loaded you cannot revert the bat file changes after a save. Un installation will not revert bat file changes. Please always make a save before adding to your current play through.

Uninstall: Just delete all files provided and remove from plugin.txt


Bugs 
Some prices and credit amounts are displayed incorrectly as a few are written in scripts or elsewhere. Will post ones I encounter.
Rent is 500 a day 2500 a week 
tried but cannot add ammo weight until Bethesda patches in survival.

Credits 
elm for the Xedit 
Rfuzzo for his game setting ini tool 
Made with Xedit and JPEXS Flash Decompiler.
Aurreth for her Planet Data.
Omnidroid for Russian Translation
JaeDL and the Royalty Mods for inspiration

Recommended Mods (besides GRiNDTerra obviously)

• SKK50s Fast Start New Game SKK Fast Start New Game (Starfield) at Starfield Nexus - Mods and Community (nexusmods.com)
• Faction POI Diversity: PoI Faction Diversity at Starfield Nexus - Mods and Community (nexusmods.com)
• STARUi Series. I really shouldn’t have to link it.
• Royalty Mods JaeDL's profile at Starfield Nexus - Mods and Community (nexusmods.com)
  

SKK50's Fast Start New Game compatibility patch
 I changed the 5 loadouts to 1. Argos miner (not same inventory as skk) 2. Civilian 3. Neon thug (not same inventory as skk) 4. Basic spacer and 5. Spacer without a weapon.
Start with basic clothes basic miner spacesuit 1 med pack 1 rando food item lodge key 500 credits and weapon based on choice. Kraken for spacer, shank for thug, eon for citizen and cutter for miner.

MY MODS

GRiNDTerra Industries- Corporate Terraformation: https://www.nexusmods.com/starfield/mods/7840
GRiNDTerra Industries- Universe Terraformed: GRiNDTerra Industries - Universe Terraformed at Starfield Nexus - Mods and Community (nexusmods.com)
GRiNDTerra Industries- Universe Terraformed Planet Replacers: https://www.nexusmods.com/starfield/mods/7590
GRiNDTerra Planet-Procedural Generation- Scannable Biologicals: GRiNDTerra Planet - Procedural Generation - Scannable Biologicals at Starfield Nexus - Mods and Community (nexusmods.com)
GRiNDTerra Gameplay Overhaul: GRiNDTerra Gameplay Overhaul at Starfield Nexus - Mods and Community (nexusmods.com)